virtualenv and deployment are why I don't recommend python for step 0 beginners Most people I've talked to at this level, they are so far away from being "tech

virtualenv and deployment are why I don't recommend python for step 0 beginners Most people I've talked to at this level, they are so far away from being "technical" that HTML/CSS is already a huge (unavoidable) hurdle and the simplest thing I can imagine is PHP + FTP. If they get on an FTP client that mimics the GUI of a folder system, people get it real quick - they are copying this local file to another folder on the server. To me, the quicker you can get them to deploy something the better. because the first steps are to understand how information is sent to your app, understand that it's your apps job to make sense of that information and return a response. I also tell them to get a cheap standard shared host, so most of the apache is transparent to them anyways. When they get to the point of needing to customize apache, that's an incremental step from where they have already gotten